POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : kindle : Re: kindle Server Time
4 Sep 2024 01:15:13 EDT (-0400)
  Re: kindle  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 23 Aug 2010 23:51:17
Message: <4c7341b5$1@news.povray.org>
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:30:24 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 23/08/2010 9:56 PM, Darren New wrote:
>> If you want to convert a PDF into text (because, say, the PDF is mostly
>> text), then you email it to your Kindle's email address with "convert"
>> in the subject line, and amazon either charges you $0.15 to wirelessly
>> zoop it to your kindle, or amazon emails you a link to a .AMZ file
>> which you can click on and then copy into K:\Documents for free. 
>> There's a limit of 25 files at once (which you can zip up or attach
>> separately) *per request*, but you can bop off several requests and
>> then download all the results.
> 
> Just a quick post in case you don't know about calibre
> http://calibre-ebook.com/
> It is free and converts all sorts of document types to lots of ebook
> formats. I've got a Sony PRS-600 and my wife (the Luddite) has one too.

Yep, we use that software quite a bit here.  :-)

Jim


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